{"id":18139,"date":"2015-04-14T23:59:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T23:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=18139"},"modified":"2015-04-15T18:51:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T18:51:24","slug":"dust-storm-in-southern-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/18139","title":{"rendered":"Dust storm in southern Nevada and California"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images (click o play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

GOES-13 (GOES-East)<\/em> 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation; also available as an MP4 movie file<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em> showed the hazy signature of a cloud of thick blowing dust moving southward across southern Nevada and parts of southern California, along and behind a strong cold frontal boundary on 14 April 2015<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Areas where the dust cloud was more dense could be identified using the Terra and Aqua MODIS 11-12 \u00b5m IR brightness temperature difference (BTD) product (below)<\/strong><\/em>. The 12 \u00b5m IR channel is no longer available on the imager instrument of the current series of GOES satellites — however, the ABI<\/strong><\/a> instrument on the upcoming GOES-R<\/strong><\/a> satellite will have a 12 \u00b5m IR channel, allowing the creation of such BTD products to aid in the identification and tracking of similar dust features.<\/p>\n

\"Terra<\/a>

Terra and Aqua MODIS 11-12 \u00b5m IR brightness temperature difference<\/p><\/div>\n

At 1833 UTC, a pilot reported\u00a0that the top of the dust cloud was at 11,500 feet near its leading edge (below). <\/strong><\/em>Farther to the south, strong winds interacting with the terrain were causing pockets of moderate to severe turbulence<\/strong><\/a>.
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\"Terra<\/a>

Terra MODIS 11-12 \u00b5m IR brightness temperature difference, with pilot reports<\/p><\/div>\n

The blowing dust cloud was also evident on true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images from MODIS and VIIRS, as visualized using the SSEC RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> web map server (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"MODIS<\/a>

MODIS and VIIRS true-color RGB images<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GOES-13 (GOES-East) 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation; also available as an MP4 movie file) showed the hazy signature of a cloud of thick blowing dust moving southward across southern Nevada and parts of southern California, along and behind a strong cold frontal boundary on 14 April 2015. Areas where the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":18141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,21,11,34,12,26,53,45,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-quality","category-avhrr","category-aviation","category-goes-13","category-goes-r","category-modis","category-poes","category-real-earth","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18139"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18151,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18139\/revisions\/18151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}